Does it have a standard deadbolt? If so, you can easily use a smart lock.
Sounds wonderful! 
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They obviously cater to the most common setups. If you’re listing is outside of the norm and it’s doing well, then ignore everything but the “payout sent” notifications.
BTW, feel free to be flip them the bird now that the “work collection” has been been eliminated.
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No, no standard deadbolt. Almost nothing is “standard” here 
And electronic stuff doesn’t last long with the high humidity. And they have to be connected to Wifi, right? See, there are all kinds of reasons why things that those who live in first world circumstances take for granted as “easy” aren’t practical in other places.
But I wouldn’t want to have self-check-in anyway. It really isn’t the kind of place a guest could just check-in to on their own and understand how anything worked.
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No. WiFi is only necessary if you want to be able to access the lock remotely. It uses Bluetooth for the guest, powered by batteries.
I don’t do self check-in either (except in 3 rare cases over the last 3.5 years where I was out of town). I do use smart locks though, inside and out.
I’ve just had my festive rant in @Xena’s earlier post!
Offering my support to you - we have a similar situation. Although I live in a large city in the US, our property (vacation/retirement home) is in St Lucia in the Caribbean. No Costco or Amazon prime there! Electricity and WiFi are both a bit spotty, humidity is high, water source is rain, electricity is 220V/50Hz so I have to order things from the UK. It costs a fortune to ship things there - and tax/duty runs 35-50%, so everything costs two-three times as much as in the US by the time it gets to St Lucia. House is open-air (no glass over the windows and nothing sealed off) so everything rusts in the house, not just outside.
Good luck!
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I went to St. Lucia for 3 weeks about 45 years ago. Wasn’t touristy then. I stayed at a little village on the west coast, just south of Soufriere. Rented a little newly built cabin with a smoky little cook shack in the yard. Every day I’d walk to a beach through the jungle, where there was never anyone else.
When I first arrived in Castries, I stayed there for a few nights, then had a driver drive me around the island. When we got to the little town where you can see the Pitons, it called out to me, I told him to stop and wait, and walked around for about 45 minutes talking to people and found that cabin for rent. The driver could’t believe I wanted to stay there- he said there was nothing there to do. He thought all foreigners would want to stay at a resort or the golf club.
I had a really enjoyable vacation there.
You may have stayed in Choisel. It’s still “local” and not touristy. Soufriere isn’t really “touristy” yet, either. A few resorts and villas sprinkled among the hills. We’re up on the top of a hill north of the Pitons with a view of them (our view is my avator).
We have two timeshare weeks in Castries (The Windjammer Landing resort) - but we bought the home in Soufriere to retire to in a few years.
Yes! I couldn’t remember the name of it, thank you. Cool that your place is right around there and that it’s still not that touristy, altho when I was there such a long time ago, there weren’t any resorts or villas scattered around in the area, at least as far as I was aware. I’d love to go back someday, but don’t know if that’s in the cards.
I remember sitting with an old woman, a local, who was stuffing mattresses with coconut fiber. She told me she had worked on the Panama Canal when she was young. I was travelling with my partner’s 5 year old son and we were quite the attraction in town- all the village kids would show up every day to play with him, the little blond foreigner. And a local fisherman who took a shine to me and wanted to get in my pants (he never did) would come around with gifts of bottles of rum and cartons of cigarettes 
Towels! I am a host but stayed somewhere recently, listed as a “magical” space (So magical you weren’t allowed to eat food in it incase you left a crumb) - it was a “Penthouse” - Cost 3 times a night what my own cottage costs and I expected great things. One towel per person! That was all! I couldn’t believe it. And that one towel was musty, grey and harsh.
Sorry, your one towel mention triggered me.
Did it indicate in the listing that you would get only one, or that you would get more than one, or did pics show Only one or more?
Haha. I charge $28/night for a private room/bath in my home and my guests get 2 nice bath towels, a hand towel and a washcloth. Some guests never use the second bath towel, but as a woman who’s had long hair most of my life, I know women often wrap one towel around their head and one for their body.
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I can’t recall now, but at over £200 a night and waxing lyrical about the amenities, I just expected it. Should I let my guests know how many towels I provide? I don’t, and I feel it’s a nice surprise for them to have plenty (by UK standards)
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That’s lovely, a really nice touch.